I just want to give a big thanks to all the wonderful people on the forums that create amazing good vibes and have inspired me to make some better orgonite pieces compared to when I 1st started.

I am in NZ and have a problem finding resin at good prices as it's quite expensive here. The supplier that I do use at the moment that stopped supplying the Poly clear cast resin with MEKP catalyst. Now I am left with using a 2 part Epoxy clear cast resin. it is really nice and super clear but I am not seeing any shrinkage from it. I am worried that my pieces is not getting sufficient pressure on the crystals to create the required effect for the orgonite device to be active or strong.

I have tried putting the piece seen in the pic below on top of my fridge directly over the ice tray to see whether I would get any funkyness happening but did not get any actions from the freezing water. I have tried with a pendulum and only getting a small clockwise rotation on the piece or other pieces with this resin. I have read with another post that a member said that he noted his epoxy pieces getting stronger over time as it cures more and puts more pressure onto the piece. Would that take about 2-4 weeks then perhaps?

Currently I have to wait about 1.5 days for a piece to just be dry enough to come out the mold but are still not fully cured. Takes about 2.5 days to feel really hard and not have any movement on the corners if I press on it.

Is there anything else I could try to increase the shrinkage and pressure on the pieces or am I being silly and there is nothing wrong with my devices?

thanks allot for everyones help.

PS: I received my Sensei pendant and it is awesome!! things in the house and at work has picked up allot better and good things all round has started to happen. Thank you very much Dennis and for the extra goodies!

My In-laws are out of town for 2 weeks. They don't have any Orgonite in their home so I am going to try and run another ice test in their freezer with some of my pieces to see what happens. Hopefully I will get some better results.

Good opportunity to get a clean control:) Will be interesting to see the results.

If you want to experiment with increasing the shrinkage you could try double casting and triple casting. IMO the easiest way to do that is to start with a 1 oz muffin mold TB and recast it in a 3 oz muffin mold with more metal and crystal, then recast it in a 6 oz muffin mold (or equivalent).

I'm not convinced that shrinkage is a big factor in increasing the activity of a piece. See what you think. You could cast a 6 oz piece with the same ingredients as your triple cast, but made in a single cast, and see which feels more active to you.

Will def post some results once I have them probably around the wknd sometime. I will be using a HGG I made for my wife 1st to do a test with and then I will use some tower busters to see if I get diff results. I have a Sensei pendant as well will do a test with that too.

I have made made a good amount of TB's thus far and other funky shapes. Remember my first batch only having about 1/3 of the TB filled with metal lol.

Will have to get some more muffin molds to do the dbl / triple casting experiment, might use some of my other smaller molds and then cast it into a TB on a 2nd take.

Got myself some silicon spray, I think you or Lena suggested it for releasing molds. Because my resin doesn't really shrink I had some that got really stuck. Freezer trick worked after about working the mold and orgonite for a week in and out. Patience needs to be practiced for this trick sometimes.

Ice test with my HHG I made for my wife. I know I should have put more gold into the gold layer. Was my 1st attempt at making a HHG looked like enough gold when I was mixing it, and still need to clean up the piece a bit.
HHG was on the shelf directly above the glass.

I am going to make another HHG and once done will post some pics again.